Levnesovia
Name:
Levnesovia.
Phonetic: Len-ve-so-ve-ah.
Named By: H.-D. Sues & A. Averianov
- 2009.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia, Hadrosauroidea.
Species: L. transoxiana
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Uzbekistan - Bissekty Formation.
Time period: Turonian/Coniacian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull remains of a
few individuals.
Levnesovia is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in Uzbekistan during the early part of the late Cretaceous. Hadrosauroids were the descendants of the iguanodonts that were common in the late Jurassic/earliest Cretaceous, and the precursors of the hadrosaurids that were common during the final ten-fifteen million years of the Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of
Uzbekistan and the early radiation of duck-billed dinosaurs. -
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
276(1667):2549-2555. - H.-D. Sues & A.
Averianov
- 2009.
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